A Gaming Life
Posts about board games
Action selection games usually don’t have a lot of theme to them, at least as far as the actions you are selecting from. Usually it’s like “oh, I select this noble to do this thing, and oh, supposedly I’m building some part of this… Continue Reading “Finding the Aliens Among Us – SETI Review”
Poker can be a really hardcore game, and quite cutthroat too. Bluffing your opponents into thinking you have an unbeatable hand when you have nothing but crap is a mainstay of the game. Why is he betting so much on that flop? But what… Continue Reading “Gambling With Success – The Gang Review”
Two posts in one day, but when I become aware of something (or in this case, become aware that a link is live even though I knew it was coming before), that’s news! This may be a day or two old, I’m not sure,… Continue Reading “Terraforming Mars: The Legacy of Mars – Coming to Gamefound”
I enjoyed board and war games as a kid, though I obviously didn’t think a lot about them. There was, of course, Monopoly and Candyland and all of that childhood trash that we look back on and say “did we really play that?” As… Continue Reading “Why Do We Play Games?”
I want to say that the Alpine expansion for Forest Shuffle was the first one, but I’m not 100% sure. That one (as I mentioned in my review) helped by adding a few different cards that mitigated some other favoured strategies in the base… Continue Reading “Living on the Edge – Forest Shuffle – Woodland Edge Expansion Review”
Nightmare on Elm Street was one of the few horror movies I could really stomach as a teenager (I’m not really a fan of horror movies, especially with jump scares and the like). There was just something about Freddy Krueger that was cool, plus… Continue Reading “He Comes For You in Your Nightmares – Final Girl – Frightmare on Maple Lane Review”
(100,000 bonus points for anybody who gets the (kind of) movie reference in the title) I’ve been a fan of Forest Shuffle for quite a while, as you can tell from reading my review. This wonderful tableau-building game never really gets old and plays… Continue Reading “Finding a Stranger in the Alps – Forest Shuffle – Alpine Expansion Review”
Some months the luck gods strike you down, and some months the luck gods…well, don’t. They still needle you some, but maybe they decide to strike somebody else down instead? That’s Combat Commander in a nutshell! Yes, it’s time for another adventure from the… Continue Reading “Combat Commander – After Action Report – Scenario M8 – Closing Outer Camp”
One of the really common things about our Sunday game days, unless we are playing a couple of really deep games that take too much time, is to have 30-45 minutes left after the main game and then trying to decide if we should… Continue Reading “Have Fun Storming the Castle! – Castle Combo Review”
I love months where I play a bunch of games that I have no experience with. September gaming was great for the number of plays, but even better for the new to me games that I got to play! I especially love it when… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2025”